Key Terms
The Bumpy Road
Our State
Fun Facts
Miscellaneous
100
To make changes to, esp. a document.
What is amend?
100
The state Maine used to be a part of.
What is Massachusetts?
100
The date the Maine became a state.
What is March 15, 1820?
100
This was the first capital of Maine.
What is Portland?
100
Maine the _______ state to be admitted to the Union.
What is 23rd?
200
Not taking a side in a conflict shows this.
What is neutrality?
200
Maine tribe that sold most of their land in Maine to Massachusetts.
What is the Passamaquoddy tribe?
200
Maine's first governor
Who is William King?
200
When was the capital moved to Augusta?
What is 1832?
200
State flower
What is white pine cone and tassel?
300
When religion cannot be a part of governmental decisions.
What is separation of church and state?
300
The Treaty of Paris set this as the Maine border in 1783.
What is the St. Croix River?
300
He promised the Penobscot tribe that they could keep their land forever.
Who is George Washington?
300
This is the eastern most city in the United States and just happens to be in Maine!
What is Eastport?
300
How many million pounds of lobster are caught off the Maine coast each year?
What is 40?
400
The legislature during the time Maine was attempting to become a state.
What is The General Court?
400
These people were moving onto wealthy landowners' property.
What are squatters?
400
Maine produces 99% of this in the country.
What are blueberries?
400
Official state bird?
What is the Chickadee?
400
Maine's Civil War general that was the last Civil War soldier to die of wounds incurred in the war?
Who is Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain?
500
The way things were before the war.
What is status quo antebellum?
500
The final "bump" in becoming a state
What is the Missouri Compromise?
500
Maine is the only state whose name is this.
What is one syllable?
500
Maine's official state insect?
What is the honeybee?
500
State motto and its meaning
What is "Dirigo" and "I lead"?
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